Legislation Needs A Better Reason Than That

Every Generation Welcomes The Pirates From The Last.

But It Is As Silly To Think About Peer-to-peer As Applying Just To Music As It Would Have Been To Think About The Internet As Applying Just To Pornography. Whatever The Initial Use Of The Technology, It Has Nothing To Do With The Potential Of The Architecture To Serve Many Other Extremely Important Functions.

The Current Term Of Protection For Software Is The Life Of An Author Plus 70 Years, Or, If It's Work-for-hire, A Total Of 95 Years. This Is A Bastardization Of The Constitution's Requirement That Copyright Be For "limited Times."

Change The Way We Fund Campaigns. Until We Do, Wall Street Will Always Be Able To Blackmail The Dems And Gop To Giving Them What Wall Street Wants.

The Legal System Doesn't Work. Or More Accurately, It Doesn't Work For Anyone Except Those With The Most Resources. Not Because The System Is Corrupt. I Don't Think Our Legal System (at The Federal Level, At Least) Is At All Corrupt. I Mean Simply Because The Costs Of Our Legal System Are So Astonishingly High That Justice Can Practically Never Be Done.